[85822] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 daydreams
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Jakma)
Tue Oct 18 01:37:19 2005
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 06:39:18 +0100 (IST)
From: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
To: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, David Barak wrote:
> Wrong issue. What I'm unhappy about is not the size of the address
> - you'll notice that I didn't say "make the whole address space
> smaller." What I'm unhappy about is the exceedingly sparse
> allocation policies
You can allocate to 100% density on the network identifier if you
want, right down to /64.
The host identifier simply is indivisible, and just happens to be
64bit.
regards,
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